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The Philadelphia Eagles have had a nice run of success over the last several seasons under Head Coach Nick Sirianni. The Eagles have won games in different ways with different coaches over the years. Coaches like Greasy Neale(1941-1950) who won two Championships in 48′ & 49′. Dick Vermeil(1976-1982) who took the Eagles to the Super Bowl in 1980 and went on to win the Super Bowl with the Rams in 1999. Andy Reid(1999-2012) took the Eagles to four consecutive NFC Championships in 01′, 02′ 03′ & 04′(getting to the Super Bowl in 04′) and 08′. Andy went on to win three Super Bowls(to date) with the Chiefs. Doug Pederson(2016-2020) who brought the very first Lombardi Trophy to Philadelphia in 2017. and now Nick Sirianni(2021-Present) who has taken the Eagles to two Super Bowls(winning one) in his first five years with the team. Nick’s winning percentage so far is one of the highest all time of not just the above mentioned coaches, but of any coach who has ever coached in the NFL.
During his time with the Philadelphia Eagles way back in the 1940’s Greasy Neale called plays for his offense. Neale was considered by many to be innovative for his time because he pioneered play action passes especially in short yardage situations. Greasy was recognized for his unique play calling designs. His installation of fake handoffs and long passes were definitely ahead of its time. Throughout Dick Vermeil’s coaching career he was known for being very hands on with his offenses and directly calling plays. Vermeil ran what was referred to as “perimeter friendly” schemes where he created in depth playbooks that featured hundreds of plays which incorporated specialized personnel groups. Andy Reid has always been the primary play-caller during his years of success in Philly and now in Kansas City. Andy is known being well prepared, and for his creativeness in designing ways to get the ball his top play makers which is commonly referred to as the “first 15”. Reid is widely recognized for his offensive expertise from decades of coaching in the NFL. Doug Pederson played under Coach Reid in Green Bay and in Philadelphia as a backup quarterback. Coach Reid then hired Doug in 2009 as an offensive quality control coach, later promoting him to quarterbacks coach in 2011. In 2013 Coach Reid became the head coach in KC and brought Doug with him to be his offensive coordinator, which lasted for until 2015. Pederson then became the head coach in Philadelphia where he called plays(including the infamous “Philly Special” in SB 52) just like his mentor(Reid) who Doug gives a lot of credit to for molding him as a coach over the years they spent together.
Nick Sirianni is a breed of his own, and has had a different approach to his head coaching. Nick tried to call plays when he first took over the Eagles in 2021. However, he stopped calling plays in the middle of the 2021 season and hasn’t since. Sirianni is involved in his offensive game planning, but he prefers to let his offensive coordinators call the plays during games taking on more of the “CEO” style of coaching. Nick has had some really good and really bad offensive coordinators in his tenure in Philadelphia. From 2021(mid season)-2022 Shane Steichen was the OC in Philly when he helped the Eagles win 14 games in 2022 and reach the Super Bowl. Steichen has gone on to be the head coach for the Colts and during this last season had his team at the top of the AFC until they lost their starting QB for the year. In 2023 Brian Johnson was promoted from within to OC in Philly. Johnson’s only season as OC in Philly started off looking promising, but the team collapsed down the stretch and he was fired in the offseason. Sirianni decided to go a different route in 2024 when he hired Kellen Moore from outside of the organization. This would ultimately turn out to be the best hire of Nick Sirianni’s coaching career because Moore would be highly instrumental in not only getting the Eagles back to the big game but blowing out Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, and the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 59. Moore moved on to become the head coach for the Saints this past season and once again Sirianni decided to promote from within which ultimately turned out to be disastrous for the team in 2025. Kevin Patullo was made the OC and yes the Eagles made the playoffs, however that was more of a result of the NFC East being a weak division with the Cowboys(the next best team) only winning 7 games. The Eagles were bounced from the playoffs in the first round at home by an injury riddled 49ers team that would go on to get destroyed the following week in Seattle. During his tenure with the Eagles, Coach Sirianni has made the playoffs every year, granted some years have looked more like “playoofs” with early exits in 21′, 23′, & 25′. However, Nick has shown great resiliency/resolve with his teams being NFC Champions in 22′ and winning the Super Bowl in 24′. So with the Eagles once again being one and done the real question shouldn’t be “what does he do?”, it should be “what will he do?”.
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